1678 – Wu San-kuei, gen, invited Manchus to China, dies trying to expel them
1708 – Anne Jules de Noailles, French general under Louis XIV (marshal of France), dies at 58
1746 – Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty
1764 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, 5th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1756-57), dies at 44
1919 – Ernest Halliwell, South African cricket wicketkeeper (8 Tests), dies at 55
1931 – George Bradley, American baseball pitcher (first no-hitter in MLB history 1876; NL ERA leader 1876), dies at 79
1991 – Dimitrios I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (1973-91), dies at 77
1994 – Faith Davis, American triplets, world’s oldest surviving triplets (Charity and Hope survive), dies at 95
2007 – Lady Katherine Brandram, Princess of Greece, the last surviving great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, dies at 94
2018 – Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabian dissident, author, Washington Post columnist and editor in chief (Al-Arab News Channel), assassinated in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul at 59, reportedly on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman